Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
Gregory Stark wrote:
Conceivably we could grab another infomask bit to indicate "uses
new-style
varlenas" and then have heaptuple.c understand how to convert them in
place.
But that leads to a ton of memory management or page locking problems.
My thinking is that when a page in the old format is read in, it's
converted to the new format before doing anything else with it.
Yes, I agree with Heikki. Any other place for conversion will generate a
big complexity of maintanace.
Zdenek
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